Awareness Campaigns

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Diabetes in Hispanics/Latinos

These four steps help people with diabetes understand, monitor, and manage their diabetes to help them stay healthy. This publication is excellent for people newly diagnosed with diabetes or who just want to learn more about controlling the disease.

This bilingual fotonovela featuring dramatic stories of Latinas talking to Latinas about preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes and being healthy for their children and themselves. The stories use three women’s challenges in maintaining a healthy lifestyle to convey an important message: Increasing physical activity, making healthy food choices and losing weight (if you are overweight) decreases or delays your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

This first recipe card set showcases four recipes specifically designed for Hispanics/Latinos. The recipes are accompanied by their nutritional facts table and total servings. The set includes the following recipes: Rice with Chicken, Avocado Tacos, Tropical Fruit Fantasia, and Spanish Omelet.

This second recipe card set showcases four recipes specifically designed for Hispanics/Latinos. The recipes are accompanied by their nutritional facts table and total servings. The set includes the following recipes: Beef Stew, Red Snapper Caribbean, Two Cheese Pizza, and Pozole.

This nutritional campaign poster is designed to dispel misunderstandings about healthy eating and teach Hispanics/Latinos how to adopt a tasty but nutritional meal plan that maintains the cultural uniqueness of their food. This color poster can be used as a resource for dietitians, diabetes educators, and people who want to manage their diabetes without losing their cultural identity.

This lively music CD helps Hispanics and Latinos incorporate more movement into their lives. It features six original songs with empowering messages and strong Latin rhythms that urge listeners to move more. It is a fun way to show how movement can help prevent and manage diabetes. Use this music CD to encourage individuals or groups to exercise. This CD also contains a music video, Movimiento Por Su Vida that can be viewed on a DVD player.

Designed for Hispanics/Latinos and African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes, this tool kit provides materials to start a community outreach program reinforcing the message that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.

The Road to Health Training Guide is designed for people who develop or offer train-the-trainer workshops and for community health workers who work with people who are Hispanic/Latino or African American/African Ancestry. Other health care professionals, diabetes educators, health educators, nurses, dietitians, and community educators can also be trained or provide training to others by using the Road to Health Toolkit. This toolkit and the bilingual Road to Health Training Video are designed for "train-the-trainer" workshops.

This video is intended to teach health workers, NDEP partner organizations, and other health professionals how to use the Road to Health Toolkit and Kit el camino hacia la buena salud. This training video is a compilation of some activities to help visualize and get ideas on how to conduct successful training sessions with the kit.

A wide selection of publications in Spanish from the NDIC, a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the diagnosis and treatment of prediabetes and diabetes.

Although Hispanics/Latinos are at high risk for type 2 diabetes, there is good news: type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by making small lifestyle changes in diet and physical activity. Follow these tips to help you prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

A bilingual booklet, Tasty Recipes is filled with recipes specifically designed for Latin Americans. Recipes are accompanied by their nutritional facts table. The booklet also includes diabetes health information and resources. This effective, yet practical, educational promotional tool is a terrific addition to any kitchen.

This easy-to-read, Spanish and English tip sheet for Hispanic/Latino teens and families encourages teens to manage diabetes by moving more, making healthy food choices and losing weight if they are overweight.

This easy-to-read, Spanish and English tip sheet for Hispanic/Latino teens and families encourages teens to lower their risk for diabetes by being active, making healthy food choices and losing weight if they are overweight.

This bilingual flip chart can help promotoras, community health workers, and other health educators teach Hispanic and Latino Americans about the link between diabetes and heart disease. The flip chart includes easy-to-understand illustrations, scripted presentations in Spanish and English, and questions to facilitate discussion. The flip chart also contains four copier-ready handouts, available in hard copy and on the accompanying CD.

This bilingual (Spanish and English) tip sheet explains the link between diabetes and heart disease for Hispanics/ Latinos. It encourages patients to work with their health care team to manage their blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol. A wallet card allows patients to track their target numbers.